Amir Khan and wife Faryal Makhdoom have revealed the reason behind their marriage breakdown last year.

The I'm A Celebrity contestant and his pregnant wife were on Loose Women yesterday to discuss their problems, reports the Mirror.

"What went wrong was a lack of communication," he admitted.

"The way it went public wasn't nice. I think anger sometimes takes over. We want to make sure all that's put behind us."

He added: "I was going through that hand injury I had, not being in the boxing ring, being away from my family, going through a lot of stuff in my life - when I was away from the boxing ring I lost that focus, that structure.

"Not being in the gym, not training, having a lot of downtime, you have a lot of energy in your body and sometimes it's mental as well."

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Faryal, who is now six months pregnant with the couple's second child, pointed out that their long-distance relationship didn't help either.

"I was in England, he was in Dubai - he thought he was a bit cool in Dubai, judging by his tweets," she quipped.

Amir confessed that he'd had something of an existential crisis and didn't know who to turn to.

"My family were very supportive, my parents, they kind of helped me when I said I didn't know what to do. I did come to a stage where I didn't know what to do with my life, I was breaking my marriage, I wasn't boxing, I had a hand injury.

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"I didn't know where to go or what to do. Being a Muslim I started praying and that's one of the things that put me on the right path."

He said the I'm A Celebrity chance come along just at the right time to save him, and he credited the programme with helping his marriage recover.